RE: Official word from FS about vista
- From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:38:44 -0800
Jeff,
The way I've heard (I've just heard this
podcast now), it seems that the next update
is a free version for all JAWS 8.0 customers.
Cheers,
Joseph P.S. I guess you can now invite FS
folks on Main Menu show next week to have
indefth discussion about JAWS and Vista.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bishop" <jeff.bishop@xxxxxxxxx
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:33:07 -0700
Subject: RE: Official word from FS about
vista
I could be mistaken here but I think if you
are not in the SMA program that
Vista will not be an option. It was kind of
vague and I am happy to be
corrected on this fact. So, let's say you
own 8.0 but you have zero SMA
counts left, are you entitled to Vista? I
don't think so. It isn't clear.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Skarstad
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:02 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Official word from FS about vista
Hi folks!
I just now listened to the latest addition of
the FS podcast from Freedom
Scientific, and I've finally got the sscoop
regarding the status of JAWS and
Vista. As I understand it, what they're
going to do is release a *free*
update to JAWS 8.0 in early February, , and
yes, it will have windows vista
support, as well as a whole bunch of other
bug fixes built into it.
As I said, if you're using JAWS 8.0 right
now, this update is *free*!!!!
Ok so we got that out of the way. The next
issue is pricing. According to
Eric Damery, the folks at FS would like to
encourage everyone who isn't in
their S M A program to start using it,
because it'll make sure that you get
either 1 or the next 2 updates available,
remember this is all dependant
upon wether or not you're already on it and
what your status might be. but
for someone who isn't on the SMA program and
starts using it, they're
guaranteed a version of JAWS, probably 9.0
which will be out later in the
year, plus the next one after that. . But
here's the important part.
Since they figure that almost no one will be
using Vista home basic, if you
upgrade your system to Windows vista home
premium, which includes all the
multimedia stuff, you'll be able to use your
existing JAWS standard license,
if that's what you use today. So for all of
us using xp home and if we go
to Vista home premium, we won't have to pay
$200 extra for another license.
Now of course if you're running Vista
business or Vista ultimate, you'll
most likely have to use JAWS professional,
but that's just an idea I had
based on what i heard.
Anyways, if you want the whole story,
visit:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fscast
and listen. episode 2 is the one you'll
want to listen to. and remember
this is just a regular mp3 file that you can
listen to in Winamp, so you can
just feel free to download it, or if you're
already subscribed, you probably
already have it.
Well, that's the scoop. I'm sure
there'll be a mountain of
messages on this subject, so there you have
it!
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